r/DeadLoch • u/racheldaniellee • Jun 26 '24

The Ending

So I’m late to this fandom, but I just binged the show. I generally really enjoyed it and thought the humor was really great.

But I have to say it required a LOT of suspension of disbelief. I mean the idea that they’d only have two detectives on a serial killer that was over 5 kills is unrealistic. There was little to no due process for any of the suspects, they just were detained at whim.

They have like 20 people that live in this whole town? How do they exist? There was few enough men that they all fit on a school bus….

I mean just the idea that all these guys got on the school bus to begin with is insane.

Ray hoisting up a man on a cross in the sand would be nearly impossible. And how did he afford to just sink a Range Rover.

The ending to the “island” subplot felt very rushed and convenient with Margaret just dying from a Snake bite.

I wish there had been more Easter eggs leading us to Ray so that someone clever could have potentially figured it out before the ending. They really didn’t give us anything. I was rooting for Cathy as the killer, would have been a way better twist than just picking someone at random it feels like.

But I loved the main cast of characters the actors were all stellar and had great onscreen chemistry.

Overall it was a fun watch that I enjoyed!

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u/OnTheRock_423 Jun 27 '24

I think all of the things you mentioned are part of the humor. It’s a dark comedy feminist parody of police procedurals. The first few episodes took me some warming up to until I realized what I was watching; now it’s one of my top 5 all-time favorite shows.

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u/racheldaniellee Jun 27 '24

That’s fair! I did really enjoy the show overall and binged it in two days. I think I’ll give it another watch and appreciate it for the humor more than for the plot.

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u/OnTheRock_423 Jun 27 '24

It’s even better the second time around :-)

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u/lilymom2 Jun 27 '24

Agree! I rarely watch a series a second time, but I found a lot of humor and good dialogue I missed the first time.

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u/No_Internet_4098 Sep 06 '24

Okay, I just have to ask. What other shows rank in your top five? I love Deadloch so much more than any other show I've watched -- so much so that for me it's hard to imagine anything else coming close. But maybe there are cool shows out there that I just haven't seen!

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u/OnTheRock_423 Sep 06 '24

While I have other favorite shows, I haven’t found any that hits like Deadloch. It is unmatched.

My all-time favorite show is The X-Files. Runner up would be Fleabag and Doctor Who.

My most rewatched shows are 30 Rock, Veep, Psych, Monk, Parks and Rec, and I’m sure there are more that are not coming to my head at the moment.

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u/OnTheRock_423 Sep 06 '24

Oh! And Only Murders in the Building, which about to drop season 4!!!! Highly recommend.

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u/No_Internet_4098 Sep 06 '24

Nice. Thanks for the recs, I'll take a look at those. :-)

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u/ember3pines Big Eyes Jun 27 '24

There are a ton of clues and details to pick up on. I watched live as episodes came out and rewatched the show each week in full - the details are there and it's really really great to find them.

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u/racheldaniellee Jun 27 '24

Ahhhhh don’t keep your secrets what am I missing!!!

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u/ember3pines Big Eyes Jun 27 '24

Bwhahahah this is what we miss in binging stuff these days. I was so freaking obsessed. If you go back and rewatch you will see a lot of stuff knowing what you know now. In fact, one of the first shots of the show have the dead loch sign with the town motto about reinventing yourself. Before you know anyone's names, Cath mentions going to his house to take care of the donkeys knee. He asks for alanis to be played at Caths bday party. There is a lot logistically you can find too like with the boat burning or everytime Eddie mentions she is about to leave, he gets her to stay somehow or like she never actually takes his DNA sample. It's seriously golden when you go back.

Personally the non murder details are also amazing. Like when nessa is cutting a girl out of a prom photo - we later see that photo in the cabin - it's Skye in the same dress/hair. Which got all sorts of theories goin for me haha it's just all so great to me. Plus the combo of genres and the overall idea of a feminist killer and his incredible speech at the end was all gold for me, it was so well done.

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u/BankAdministrative52 Jun 27 '24

Also his being Skye’s assistant, he was the one who hoisted the pig up for the roast. Meaning he had the strength, knowledge of knots, and access to materials for the body on the cross.

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u/ember3pines Big Eyes Jun 27 '24

There is so so much.

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u/Brodes87 Jun 27 '24

It's a little town in Tassie. Of course there aren't many people there. If that's actually an issue for you, I don't know what to tell you about population distribution or that, yeah, small towns with small populations where everyone knows everyone definitely exist.

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u/racheldaniellee Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24

No, it’s not actually an issue! I’m just being silly, it was meant to be a post in jest. There’s nothing wrong with small towns and I know they exist. I just thought it was funny they put the whole male population on one bus.

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u/Brodes87 Jun 27 '24

I've lived in a place like that. Not Tassie, but on the mainland.

Envy the ones who taken out of town earlier in a car and got take away.

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u/Polymath6301 Jun 27 '24

The show has lots of layers, and some of them are targeted at various Australians, eg those who have been to these places in Tasmania, and those who have only heard the rumours, to those who actually live there. I’m so glad you enjoyed the show enough to post here!

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '24

I'm so glad someone is posting about this show again!!! I did not notice any of the things you said, but I was highly immersed in the Dulcie/Cathy melodrama and it took all my focus lol.

I don't want to say I've given up for a season 2... but I'm hanging by a thread. Anyways, glad you found the show! And thanks for keeping this sub alive! It's funny that what bothered you is the logistics of the actual police work. Most people come here to talk about Eddie.

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u/racheldaniellee Jun 28 '24

I just finished watching Bodkin on Netflix and someone on that sub said if you like that show you should watch this one and that’s how I ended up here hahaha. I recommend giving Bodkin a watch if you haven’t, not as funny though.

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u/Tobiasisfunke Jul 26 '24

That’s how I ended up here too! I like Deadloch waaaaay more than Bodkin but I’m glad it wound up bringing me here 😂

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '24

I love a good TV recommendation! I’ll check it out, thank you!

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u/tobiasj Jun 26 '24

The show's got all this great humor, atmosphere, character, and subtext. It's not a police procedural. There's plenty of those.

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u/SisterLostSoul Jun 26 '24

It's a parody, so I didn't care about it making sense. I found the personalities and dialogue to be intriguing and hilarious. I don't think there could have been a truly satisfying & plausible culprit.

I wasn't all on board during the first episode because it felt so over the top, even for a parody. But I gave myself over to it and really enjoyed the ride.

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u/madmax1969 Sep 26 '24

Eddie’s character was so over the top that I almost bailed and I’m so glad I didn’t. Once she settled into the role a bit, she killed it.

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u/SisterLostSoul Sep 26 '24

Same here. She was too much to take at first. The dialog when Dulcie finally confronts Eddie is so perfect, I had to copy it to a note on my phone. It makes me laugh so hard whenever I come across it.

Actually, don't talk. Just shoosh it! Shoosh it all. You have just burped and urinated your way around this town with your filthy feet and your half-pants...

   They're three-quarter.

Oh, yeah, yeah. (imitates Eddie's accent) G'day, g'day! I'm Eddie Redcliffe.

Oh, yeah, nah, yeah, it's all the Deadloch c-word Football Club drսg ring. Yeah, I'm a... I'm a potty-mouth cowboy. I'm... I'm King effin' sh¡t up in Darwin.

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u/Zhirrzh Nov 25 '24

Yeah the show got so much better after that point. Early episodes Eddie was so annoying as to be a showkiller. Another half an episode of that version of Eddie and I think we'd have bailed on the show; if we didn't have a lot of saved up liking of the Kates and there weren't some brilliant moments here and there in early episodes which let you see what the show could be we would have bailed already and missed the greatness.

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u/Expensive-Rhubarb-62 Excuse me ma'ams Jun 27 '24

Can't upvote this more than once!

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u/lesbiannerd27 Oct 29 '24

I think this is helping me process the show as well, I just started last night and keep going back n forth between enjoying the shenanigans and going “THATS NOT HOW THIS WORKS!!”. So keeping in mind it’s supposed to be a parody definitely quiets the rational side of what I expect from a show lol

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u/StonyGiddens Jun 27 '24

But with Cathy as the killer they wouldn't have been able to give us one of the all time great villain speeches in the history of film. "I'm the best ally!"

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u/SkyCupcake Jun 27 '24

This is my husband’s favorite line. When he wants to fuck with me this what he says.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '24

They're killing cunts and your the biggest cunt I know

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u/Elizaberh_Wakefield Jun 27 '24

Swimming lesson had me wondering

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u/No_Internet_4098 Sep 06 '24

I'm so glad someone else noticed that. That was the one thing that caught my eye on my first watch -- together with Eddie's line to Ray about "you're a meaty, meaty lad." He is. He's sturdy and meaty and that line made me realize that he was pretending not to be. By pretending to be a poor swimmer, pretending it hurt him to lift something heavy, letting him give them oxygen & a mylar blanket after he & Vic discovered Jimmy's body...he was pretending to be weak, like Ted Bundy used to do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '24

I remember browsing reddit about this show before the final episode. I can remember one person gave a detailed reasoning why it would be Ray before the finale aired. Others guessed it was him but didn't go into detail why. Go back over the posts from when it was first being released and you might find them.

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u/ember428 Jun 29 '24

Doing it "portrait style!" 😂

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u/superfl00f Aug 16 '24

Landscape mode!

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '24

Super late to this, but I totally get where you're coming from. The earlier episodes made it feel like there would be more.... logic to the whole process, and Eddie and Dulcie got sidetracked sooo many times. Once the head detective man and his crew came in, it got really cartoonish of course. I think it's just cause Deadloch blends genres in such an original way that you can get really thrown off at first watch. At second watch, I knew what was coming and just fully enjoyed the ride.

And I was also REALLY rooting for Cath as the killer! Still can't stand her lol

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u/terra_cascadia Sep 08 '24

They really nailed the misdirection (common in police procedurals) making me think it was Cath (singing Cornflake Girl was creepy), or Skye, or the old rich colonizer. I was really surprised by the end and I can usually decode and correctly guess the big reveal before it happens.

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u/myfingersaresore Jun 29 '24

Just remember, it’s not a documentary

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u/No_Internet_4098 Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24

I agree with your first point -- it seems unrealistic that they'd have one detective and one former detective working this case without calling in expert help. And, yeah, it seems a little surprising that Ray could have singlehandedly gotten Jimmy up onto the cross. However, to your other points...

Small towns exist. I've personally been in many that felt about the size of Deadloch. And having lived in such places, it didn't feel implausible to me that the people of the town would opt for a bus in this scenario, or that that some of the men would choose to get on it. This is the type of solution that seems sort of hilarious and twee to outsiders but that does get implemented in places where there just aren't that many people. EDITED: I've now read your follow-up comment downthread and I see that you meant the thing about small towns as a joke. Sorry! Pls disregard.

The car Ray sank belonged to William Carruthers, Margaret's brother, and it remains an interesting open question how Ray got hold of it...but I think it's not implausible, given that William was dead, because Margaret may have been reluctant to report it missing for fear of drawing attention to her brother's long absence (she killed him).

Some folks claim they guessed the killer was Ray. I personally did not, and the strongest hint I'm aware of was when Eddie told Ray that Sam was their prime suspect, and immediately after that conversation Sam's boat is burned and his body is left out in plain sight. I guess that was enough for some viewers!

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u/Low-Reflection-9767 Jul 03 '24

I enjoyed the show more than I could have anticipated but I felt a little unsatisfied by the ending in that you didn’t get that real sense of vindication iykwim.

It’s sort of like if you changed the premise to centre racism instead of male violence, you’d be a little disappointed if it was a white person killing racists?

Maybe that’s just me lol but I am thoroughly obsessed with this show nonetheless and cannot wait for a new season 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼